Summary of WFP assistance
In the context of an emerging Middle Income Country, WFP's assistance in Indonesia has transitioned from the provision of food aid to collaboration with national counterparts toward more sustainable food assistance solutions. This is the last year of WFP's four-year Country Programme (CP). In line with the Government's priorities and policies, and the United Nations Partnership for Development Framework (2011-2015), WFP has complements national efforts to achieve food and nutrition security for all Indonesians, particularly the most vulnerable. WFP supports elements of the Government of Indonesia's 2011-2015 Food and Nutrition Security Action Plan, which aims to help the poor, particularly children under the age of five and pregnant women, to access basic social services, adequate safe and nutritious food, and other interventions such as micronutrient supplementation.
WFP applies a two-pronged strategy that focuses on (i) operational interventions, and (ii) policy advocacy and capacity development to mutually reinforce each other. WFP works with district governments in some of the least food-secure districts to set up small prototype programmes which can generate lessons and serve as examples for the Government to scale up. These prototypes have focused on nutrition, school meals, climate change adaptation, disaster management, and food and nutrition security analysis.
A 2012 rapid gender assessment highlighted the particular need to enhance the nutrition of women of childbearing age, as malnutrition contributes to Indonesia's high maternal and infant mortality rates. To address this issue, WFP aimed to improve the nutrition for pregnant women and nursing mothers and their children up to 24 months of age. In Papua's school feeding programme, WFP trained women in cooking groups on nutrition, health and hygiene, financial reporting and how to calculate nutrient intake and ensure food diversity - skills which would also support the women’s own income generation activities.
WFP’s assistance in Indonesia is in line with the national development targets of the Government of Indonesia, WFP Strategic Objectives 2, 3 and 4, and MDG 1. In 2015, WFP continued its collaboration with the Government at district, national and provincial levels.